When you #CARRYACAUSE with Malia Designs you support small businesses here in the US and in Cambodia. Our fair trade business model makes this possible, but what else does fair trade mean?

Fair Trade businesses aim to combat poverty by providing a fair, livable wage for all workers, ensuring safe working conditions, empowering the disadvantaged to be active players in their workplaces, aiding community development efforts, respecting cultural identity, and promoting environmentally-sound business practices. It is a sustainable way to provide economic opportunity and hope for marginalized people in some of the poorest communities worldwide.

Fair Trade is:

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a consumer movement

We, as consumers, can use our buying power to alter the global economy.

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a system of global commerce

The current global economy does not adequately address the needs of the most vulnerable.

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an alternative business model

One that seeks to empower producers and artisans to lift themselves out of poverty.

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a tool for international development

Contributing to sustainable development by offering better trading conditions for people and the planet.

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a social justice movement

Helping to secure the rights of marginalized producers and workers.

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based on dialogue, transparency and respect

It shows how a successful business can also put people first, while still making a profit.